BET-TV Founder Says If Hussein Was White, Hillary Would Be Leading
This is what it is going to take to end all of this bullshit racism where racism doesn’t exist crap.
One of the few ways that we will overcome this hair-trigger racism crying in America, is when people like Bob Johnson say the kind of things Bob Johnson said below.
Whites can not point out unfairness or inconsistencies, or heck, white people can’t even bring up criticisms at all of non-whites without the race card being pulled out by someone, somewhere. After that you know Al Sharpton will start circling like a hammerhead shark.
Great example here. Johnson is saying the same thing Geraldine Ferraro said a while back, and he even points that out.
Wading back into the Democratic presidential race, billionaire businessman Bob Johnson said Monday that Sen. Barack Obama would not be his party’s leading candidate if he were white.
Johnson’s comments to the Observer echoed those of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She stepped down as an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton last month after saying Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white.
“What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?” Johnson said. “And the answer is, probably not… .”
“Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial … it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.”
Johnson, who made a fortune after founding Black Entertainment Television and now owns the Charlotte Bobcats, is a longtime friend of Clinton and her husband, the former president.
It was during a January appearance for the New York senator in Columbia that he first stepped into controversy, referring to Obama and “what he was doing in the neighborhood.”
Many took that as a reference to Obama’s acknowledged drug use in his youth. But in a statement, Johnson said he’d been “referring to Barack Obama’s time spent as a community organizer and nothing else. Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect.”
On Monday, Johnson alluded to the incident.
“I make a joke about Obama doing drugs (and it’s) `Oh my God, a black man tearing down another black man’,” Johnson said.
The Obama campaign dismissed Johnson’s comments.
“This is just one in a long line of absurd comments by Bob Johnson and other Clinton supporters who will say or do anything to get the nomination,” said spokesman Dan Leistikow. “The American people are tired of this and are ready to turn the page on these kind of attack politics.”
Johnson disputed the notion that Obama has built a broad coalition. Most of his support, he said, comes from African Americans and white liberals but not white, working-class Democrats.
“I don’t think he has that common — what I call `I-want-to-go-out-and-have-a-drink-with-you — touch,” Johnson said.
An Observer/WCNC Poll this month found Obama and Clinton splitting the votes of white North Carolinians who say they’ll vote in the May 6 primary. Obama led 59 percent to 7 percent among African Americans.
Johnson said Obama is likely to win the nomination and has had the support of “the liberal media.”
“They sort of dislike Hillary for her vote on the war. They don’t want to see Bill and Hillary in power again,” he said. “So Obama comes in and runs a smart campaign. But that’s not the Second Coming, in my opinion, of John F. Kennedy, FDR or the world’s greatest leaders.”
(Charlotte Observer)
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Uh, oh. I see a new target named Johnson emerging on the horizon for perpetual victim wrong-rev Wright.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:02 amSee and Johnson is a prominent figure within the black community. this should legitimize everyones thoughts on Obama but im sure it wont. this mentality of ‘we just need to vote for a black guy no matter what the experience level’ is just a dangerous business.
It goes right along with the thinking that if you dont vote for Obama you’re just a racist. but in reality i would vote for a person of any color if their views matched mine.
J.C Watts for example. you bet your ass i would vote for him if he was running for office again.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:14 amBash, what’s with the picture of Ron Jeremy?
April 15th, 2008 at 8:29 amAnyway, good for Bob Johnson to step up and tell it like it REALLY is.
An American said that….
April 15th, 2008 at 8:58 amLook out Mr Johnson, you’ve got a target on your back now, oh, and welcome to Uncle Toms Cabin…
This guys hitting it right on the money. ‘Nuff said. He, Cosby, and Thomas Sowell ought to be together on a natioanl speaking tour of American urban areas. This race card crap has gone on way too long.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:01 amCool insert photo of the fat little racist racist -baiter.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:56 amGood for Mr. Johnson, but he is guilty of dumbing down the nation with that degenerate BTE-TV. A large percentage of its programming should not be viewed by children.